
Hegemony and Culture in the Origins of NATO Nuclear First-Use, 1945–1955.
Title:
Hegemony and Culture in the Origins of NATO Nuclear First-Use, 1945–1955.
Author:
Johnston, A.
ISBN:
9781403976932
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (340 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Persistence of Nuclear First-Use -- Chapter One: Culture, War, Empire -- Chapter Two: The Persistence of the Old Regime: British, French, and American Strategic Thinking before 1949 -- Chapter Three: "Disembodied Military Planning": The Political-Economy of Strategy, 1949-50 -- Chapter Four: Mind the Gap: The Paper Divisions and Cardboard Wings of the Lisbon Force Goals -- Chapter Five: Strategies of Peripheralism: France, Britain, and the American New Look -- Chapter Six: Two Cultures of Massive Retaliation: Neo-isolationism and the Idealism of John Foster Dulles -- Chapter Seven: Hegemony Versus Multilateralism: Nuclear Sharing and NATO's Search for Cohesion -- Chapter Eight: "Our Plans Might Not be Purely Defensive": Leading NATO into the Nuclear Era -- Conclusion: What Does Culture Tell Us About NATO Nuclear Strategy That We Were Afraid To Ask? -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Johnston argues that the preemptive first use of nuclear weapons, long the foundation of American nuclear strategy, was not the carefully reasoned response to a growing Soviet conventional threat. Instead, it was part of a process of cultural "socialization," by which the United States reconstituted the previously nationalist strategic cultures of the European allies into a seamless western community directed by Washington.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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